IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

TJT said:

I absolutely love working for a smaller company. I went from the biggest of big corporate at General Motors to a company of <300 people. I was employee 231 when I was hired. Now we're nearly at 600 and this is in barely a year.

I will focus solely on sub 500 employee companies from now on when I eventually get a new job. It's just way too awesome to actually have a direct impact on the entire organization and see your ideas come to fruition and be used by the entire company. Can't beat it. I got a raise and a promotion in just over a year solely because I could directly tell leadership my value and prove it.

No fighting for access, no hunting for people, just given problems to solve and solving them. My one gripe is the other side of this coin. When problems come up across the organization people brainstorm to find solutions and often just take the very first one that sounds remotely plausible. Leading to huge issues that I end up solving because of their complete lack of scalability. I've been trying to teach everyone to assume that your first idea is stupid and inefficient because it probably is. Especially mine!

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Man, hope my next company is sub 500. Sounds awesome!

ShakyJake said:

If you want a job in the industry I'd go in this order: React > Angular > Vue.

If you want ease of learning then go Vue.

There are many other frameworks/libraries out there, of course. Probably the only other one I'd recommend would be maybe Svelte.js. That one is very similar (in structure) to Vue but compiles into Javascript and doesn't need a framework to execute it afterwards. It is very fast and small.

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Ya I see job reqs for angular a lot. Imagine since it's been around a while. Legacy software ftw

goishen said:

Hmmm. I'm looking at the job requirements in my area right now, and I am seeing that not all Python developer jobs require senior level shit. And yah, I know that Python gets a lotta shit. But, I'm having fun.

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Tons of reqs for senior positions and less for entry these days it seems.

Frenzied Wombat said:

Any other sysadmins or IT managers also seeing a huge uptick in hacking attempts over the last few months? I’m not talking rando script kiddy shit or port scanners, but actual targeted efforts. Just in the last month we’ve had two targeted phishing attacks, one that was blocked by our web filter, but would take you to a phony OWA sign in page that copied our branding, the 2nd being similar however it was hosted on a specific url of a compromised personal training website. Then someone literally tried about 500 logins to our Remote Desktop gateway using a list of employee usernames going back over a decade— most not even employed anymore. Constant attack attempts at our various Wordpress hosted websites too looking for vulnerable or out of date plug-ins.
Shit is keeping me up late at night— these latest ransomware attacks look fucking deadly.

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Been seeing an uptick of this where I am at. All appear to be from the rang rangs. Not to inject politics into this thread, but they have been doing this shit for a while but are probably pulling out all the stops in an effort to crash out economy before theirs bites it. Makes sense they would be pulling this sort of shit, since its low effort and nets you a lot of gain for the effort.

Not totally the same but we are in a similar legal battle with one of the other companies in our equity partner's portfolio. We have had a Venture Capital equity company for the past 2 years. They will likely exit within another year. However, one of the other companies they are involved with is some kind of data analytics company. They bitched and moaned to the capital company for access to our product usage data (we sell a SAAS product that mostly only applies to companies with a lot of technical infrastructures).

Our legal/CEO stalled on it because they didn't want to give it to the data company for whatever reason. Somehow, someway though the data company was able to get a cloned copy of our product data going back at least a year. To the point that they were confident enough that they could sell datasets based around our aspect of the tech industry.

Queue leadership losing their shit about this. They hired some Cyber Security auditors to dig around and find out how this happened. I personally designed our data warehouse and know for a fact it didn't come from there and was able to prove that. Which only leaves that they got it from our product itself somehow. Haven't heard back from it but I've been impressed with the skill of these auditors so far. They do really know their shit and are not retards like the security guys I worked with at GM.

agripa said:

Lots of ransomware groups sell their stuff as a service now. Attacks are getting more sophisticated depending on the group attacking you. Peeps that use netwalker ransomware for instance will usually be in your environment for a few months before they launch their attack. Maze is another group that comes to mind they will threaten to release your data in the wild if you don't pay the ransom. A large amount of companies will pay the fee. Garmin for instance paid 10 million bucks supposedly for their decryption key. Blackbaud paid to not have their data dumped same with UCSF.

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SaaS hacking lol. 21st Century!

If you need to change local machine admin accounts, ARM is the best option. This is especially true if a ton of assholes made their own local accounts on their boxes to circumvent your site security policies either by arm twisting their IT derps or putting them in place before you implemented any infosec policies in your work place.. I say this as someone who used to do this to get around such restrictions. It also serves a lot of other functions that will help you in the long haul, so its money well spent.